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The US has fomented violent coups and interfered with legitimate elections all around the world in service of exporting capitalism and free market imperialism (
by xtian 6y ago
The US has fomented violent coups and interfered with legitimate elections all around the world in service of exporting capitalism and free market imperialism (e.g., in Italy, Indonesia, Iran, any number of countries in Central and South America).
And Stalin repeatedly instructed revolutionary communists to stand down in order to avoid provoking Western powers (e.g, in Greece, Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and even China). The USSR provided little to no assistance to revolutionaries in Central and South America, believing that socialism needed to develop there naturally.
- ekianjo 6y ago> The USSR provided little to no assistance to revolutionaries in Central and South America So I guess Cuba does not count? Sending missiles right at the doorstep of the US and constant financial aid seems to counter your point. > The US has fomented violent coups and interfered with legitimate elections all around the world in service of exporting capitalism and free market imperialism (e.g., in Italy, Indonesia, Iran, any number of countries in Central and South America). Every major power does that, but they are not all equal. The British empire was in comparison a lot more violent that the US has ever been. And people who lived under Soviet Rule (even outside of Russia) also know very well it was far from a peace-loving, people-respecting regime.
- xtian 6y agoThe USSR proposed deescalation and moratoria on new weapons development repeatedly during the Cold War, and they were consistently rebuffed. Did the US not have a presence in Europe on the Soviet Union’s doorstep? “Everybody does imperialism” is not the glimmering rebuttal you think it is.